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The fact of the matter is that most of the time when you are playing Omaha, you are going to be playing a drawing hand. It is a rare occasion that you can flop the nuts and have it hold up through the river. That being the case, you just need to make sure that [...]
Yes, the games are similar, but the biggest mistake most beginning players make when they are starting out is in thinking that they can start with the same starting hands and bet the way they would in hold’em. If you do, you are doing nothing more than making a donation to everyone else at the [...]
Omaha Poker is an action game and even the best of hands can turn into complete rags once that flop hits the board. This is one of the primary reasons that you will only see marginal raises before the flop and you will also see a lot of callers. The problem is that it is [...]
If you mention that you play poker to the average person on the street, they will almost always assume you mean Texas Hold’em. Tournament Texas Hold’em was accepted as “the poker game” when the poker boom hit the United States in 2003, after Chris Moneymakers historic World Series of Poker Main Event victory. Millions of [...]
If you can play Hold’em, you know how boring grinding out a session can be. Unless you are a loose player, you spend more time folding hands than you do anything else. When you are looking for something with a little more action and that is a lot more fun to play, Omaha is the [...]
I have heard many people explain as Omaha, “It’s the same as Texas Hold’em, but you get 4 cards instead of two.” They then deal the cards and the person who received this information, still doesn’t really know what’s going on. While the overall concept of the game of Omaha, could be perhaps very simply [...]
A situation occurred at the World Series of Poker Europe on Thursday that reminded me the power that a big drawing hand can hold in Pot Limit Omaha. David “DevilFish” Ulliott had flopped a set of kings holding Ks-Kh-7c-2s. The flop was Kd-Jc-5d. His opponent, Markus Golser, was holding Ad-Qd-10c-4s. He had both a nut [...]
In Texas Holdem Poker, when a player looks down and sees pocket aces, the player typically does a little leap inside their head. Many players will tend to do the same thing in Pot Limit Omaha Poker when they look down at pocket aces. Unfortunately, not all hands that contain aces are strong. Let’s talk [...]
Omaha Poker is a game that is played very much like texas holdem poker but has two unique differences in overall rules. First, each player is dealt four cards. From that point, the game is played much like holdem with a flop, turn, and river. Betting occurs after each round as in holdem. At showdown, [...]
